It's Friday, 10/23/09, and we need another OTFPOTD
The recent OTFPOTD has exceeded the critical mass of 1000+ posts. I was going to save this one for Monday, but eh, I've never done one of these and I'm way overdue anyway.
Possible Questions:
* Fall has been a topic of late, both in Seattle and NYC, where we are jumping wildly from low-60s to low-40s and back again on any given day. We've talked holidays and nature and football and BEER, so here's another question with a different spin on it: do your music listening habits change with the leaves? Do certain bands or albums typify fall for you more than any other season? Extra credit: what about reading?
* Strangest book you have ever read? Strangest movie you have ever seen? Explicate. Was it worth it?
* What non-curse, non-buzz word would you care to never hear again?
* Via MarinerJohn, what's your favorite archipelago?
* Via waldo rojas, most overrated board games?
* Let's talk disappointment... in music. Who is an artist that you were really excited about back in the day that never followed up in the way you expected, or otherwise got mired in prolonged periods of mediocrity?
* Movie series reboots have probably been done. What about video game series reboots? Any particular successes, failures, or ones that generated mixed reactions?
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Great stuff, J.
1) I was thinking about this earlier, as I had made something like a summer playlist, and kept in mind what I’d listen to in the fall (or winter). The primary thing that wasn’t for summer, but was good for the fall was post-rock for some reason. Probably the fact that since Friday Night Lights, Explosions in the Sky is the soundtrack to every slo-mo football highlight that aspires to something more than a Stuart Scott one-liner. So yeah, post-rock.
2) I don’t know, but I’m still desperate to see that insane Thai western from several years back that everyone talks about as a great/insane movie. I’ll have to think more about the book portion….
3) “right-size”
4) I still may have to go with the Lofotens, but they’re so small. I think we need a heavyweight/middleweight/flyweight-type of system. Maybe use the AAA/AA/A B11/B8 framework. Lofotens for flyweight, maybe Japan for the big boys. New Zealand for middleweights?
5) They’re pretty much all overrated. Nostalgia makes them seem more complex/nuanced/fun than they really are. How about Risk?
6) Easy answer is Modest Mouse, whose early work blows my mind and whose recent output merely blows. Archers of Loaf, maybe, though that’s more that I’ve never really gotten much out of Eric Bachman’s post-AoL projects.
Or Diplomacy, if you have lots of time.
(probably not the MOST overrated, but any roll the die and move your little piece up the board-style games have already faced something of a correction)
Agreed on Modest Mouse.
Something snapped after the whole fall out with Murder City Devils and I think he decided to try and become something different. He did and it isn’t as good.
I still really dig Modest Mouse!
There last batch of music that produced …before the ship ever sank and no one’s first and your next contain some of my favorite mouse songs, like: King Rat, Autumn Bed, Little Motel, Spitting Venom and Parting of the Sensory.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 1:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Th early, heavy stuff was electric.
Modest Mouse live in 1997 was just fucking jaw-dropping. What they became might be something people like a lot, but compared to what they were it’s…well, I don’t want to judge taste here, but it’s so much different than what it seemed like they were destined to become.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 24, 2009 1:53 AM PDT up reply actions
No doubt they have changed...
and have produced a few commercially aimed songs, but I still find songs like the ones I listed above as raw and beautiful.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Answers!
1. The more I think about it, my answer kinda is “I used to but I don’t any more”. These days, I listen to pretty much whatever floats across my transom whenever it strikes me, but there is definitely a lot of stuff to be gained with seasonal playlists, because it makes you think about music in a different way. Not just “is this good” but “what matches the clouds and rain” and stuff like that.
2.
3. Iterate.
4. I gotta go with New Zealand because of Flight of the Conchords.
5. Didn’t grow up playing board games, so I don’t really have an opinion – I like the occasional game of Clue but that’s about it for my knowledge of board games.
6. It’s hard for me to answer the first part of that question, because I have a billion CD’s of a billion bands that put out one stellar record or several great singles, never to be heard from again (I still miss you, Valentine Killers! You’re still on my mind, Dharma Bums!). For the “otherwise got mired” part of your question, though, as mainstreamy as it sounds, I gotta go with Elvis Costello. Fortunately, his career has been long enough that it’s sine-waveish; every fallow period is followed by at least a brief spike of goodness. And most of his “fallow” periods are marked by records that others would die to have made; they just don’t stand up to the rest of his stuff in my opinion.
7. Not a video game guy, sorry.
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Oh crap I forgot #2
Probably Pink Flamingos.
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"5. Didn’t grow up playing board games, so I don’t really have an opinion "
Yup.
we had Candyland ( I liked the pictures of candy, but that was about it) and later, Mouse trap (which only got played with as a construction object)
To this day
I still have no idea how one “plays” Mouse Trap for that very reason. It was really nothing more than an excuse to build a Rube Goldberg contraption.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Hello!
1) A little, probably less island music, more ponderous jazz. I reads what I reads when I reads it.
2) Working my way through Poe right now, there is some really odd, fascinating stuff in there. “The Balloon-Hoax” and “Gold-bug” stand out.
3) Not so much a word, but a phrasing that has become popular in sports and is spreading. “A Derek Jeter, A Manny Ramirez..” when referring to Derek Jeter or Manny. I hear it all the time now and it makes me feel sad that Carlin is dead.
4) I’ve only ever been to Hawaii and Japan, they are both nice in their own ways.
5) Clue
6) Luniz
7) I really like Bionic Commando in a nostalgic way, but then realized it’s actually not that fun.
Bionic Commando
was probably one of the few games that frustrated me with its in-game limitations. I can understand the charm of the claw arm and all that crazy shit but there’s really no reason I shouldn’t be able to jump.
Not that there was a reason either for 90% of early video game heroes out to save the universe being completely unable to swim.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
This'll put some sand in some people's pudding
Hulu is going to start charging for content. I’m surprised it took them this long.
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I always assumed they did.
fuck.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Yup.
Probably has something to do with Comcast buying out NBC. My hatred for Comcast only continues to grow.
Chad Brown for the Ring of Honor!
by Big Seahawk Loser on Oct 25, 2009 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmmmm.
- No but I definitely start watching more seasonal movies when it comes to Halloween and Christmas.
- "Cecil B. DeMented " – It’s about a lunatic young film director and his band of young cultists who kidnap an A-list Hollywood movie star and force her to be in their underground movie. It’s about teen terrorism against the movie business.
- “Keyword” or anything involving a company talking about using social media.
- Hawaiian Islands
- Monopoly
- Creed (hahahaha)
- Anything based of a original NES game.
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I was actually thinking about Cecil B. DeMented, but then pdb mentioned Pink Flamingoes
and really, Cecil B. DeMented is, for Waters, pretty damned normal.
It actually enjoyed it.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Same here!
I was actually really, really excited for it, and it never lived up to the movie I thought he was going to make, but that’s my fault.
And I didn't realize that Waters did Pink Flamingo as well.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
In hindsight, the fact that 50-something women are desperate to buy tickets to a broadway show based on a John Waters movie
is about as remarkable as the fact that the director of Meet the Feebles won an Academy Award for best director.
PunchOut! was pretty good for Wii.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Never been a punch out fan.
There I said it.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Poorly formed words and poorly formed sentence...
And yet another ellipsis, because that’s how I roll.
A fangraphs commenter!
That question was totally sub-par, and I think you have like minutes to go before Graham bans you. You never add anything, and frankly, I find it insulting that you pretend to care what I’m going to be for Halloween. You’re singlehandedly destroying this website.
I pity you, or hate you. I haven’t decided which just yet.
I read the paragraph before the subject line.
And was throughly confused.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
.....that just happen.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
It's my friend's birthday.
So I’m going to be blind stinking drunk, and possibly attending a burlesque show in which she’ll be breathing fire.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
She will be.
You’d have to come to New York though.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
That sounds like something I might have done before I got married...
Not that I could have afforded the plane ticket… then again I’d probably still be in SF so I’d be able to find a burlesque show locally…
That does add a layer of complication to it.
I figure I could always defend it as “I’m supporting my friend’s art”, by which I could justify nearly anything at this point, but I’ve not yet needed to, nor felt inclined. It’s worth seeing though, for the acts and for the people watching.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
What is the best costume you’ve ever seen?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I've seen some folks with phenomenal zombie make-up
not that I knew it was make up until I started breaking down the body for disposal.
My friend went as Small Wonder, the 80s sitcom little girl robot.
(he’s an adult male).
There was a “Wheel of Fortune” (the actual wheel) with random things on it, one of which was ‘surprise!’ If you got surprise, another person, who was hiding in the basement, would run up and scream at you. I simply don’t have the time/patience/coordinating ability to do something like that, and I’m also not persuasive enough to convince a friend to hang out in the basement of a party only to come out at certain times and yell at people.
One year someone came as the Burning Bush (minus Moses) ...
I made a set of full-size Jeopardy podiums for a pair of us to stand behind as Jeopardy losers one year
Haven't the foggiest.
I haven’t dressed up as anything for ages, and this year I probably will. No idea what to be though.
I haven't a clue yet
I need to pick something. My son is going as a skeleton, and my fiancee is going as a witch (Halloween is her favorite holiday). I told her I was going to go as a car salesman and she said that I couldn’t because I was supposed to be something scary. I then told her I was going to be a used car salesm
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
*salesman
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I will be down in AZ watching the Fall League on Halloween.
So I will be wearing what I always wear in AZ: shorts, M’s shirt and my camera.
I'm going as Nightman!

I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Nah, I don't have the contacts unfortunately.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions
That would've been awesome.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Trying not to think too much...
- Oddly, that weather pattern sounds about the same as we’ve had here in the KC Metro area, with a little more of the 40s than the 60s. The only real seasonal change to my music listening is that towards late November I break out the Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas album once or twice. Reading? That cycle is a on a grander scale. I read the entire lexicography of Jonathan Kellerman in 2 weeks a few years back and have only read three non-textbooks since.
- Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (book). Couldn’t say on the film side. Un Chien Andalu is too obvious and pretty unentertaining (except the part with the friars and the dead mule).
- Post-modern. Okay, I don’t mind the word, I just hate the writing.
- New Zealand is the one I’m most interested in visiting, so I’ll go with that.
- Monopoly. Holy fuck, that’s boring. Axis and Allies, on the other hand, awesome (if you have 30 hours to sepnd on it).
- They Might Be Giants. Lots of phenomenal stuff, and lots of stuff that shouldn’t even be played during the 99th season of Bill Nye the Science Guy.
- I don’t play enough video games to answer this one. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the new Blood Bowl, but that wasn’t a series.
Video game reboots?
Not sure if this counts as a reboot, but I thought the Metroid prime series just kicked all kinds of ass at moving the game from 2D to 3D.
angels fan in seattle
by Eyebrows on Oct 23, 2009 2:15 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Playing my own game
1. I can’t seem to justify listening to Tom Waits’ “The Black Rider” in any other season. It’s just not the same. Otherwise, I tend to bust out a bit of post-punk/rock stuff every winter, will work Mingus, Coltrane, the Lounge Lizards, and other jazz types into more regular rotation, and as it gets into winter, slip in a bit of classical.
Bonus question: I just bought a bilingual collection of Rilke, hardcover, $50, because I tend to deposit paychecks at the bookstore, or the record store, or the liquor store. He’s definitely Fall. Wallace Stevens might be too.
2. Movie, might be Survive Style 5+. Loosely interweaving goofy plotlines, centering around a man who can’t stop killing his wife (who keeps coming back with terrifying superpowers), a middle class family with awful luck, a young woman in advertising who may or may not be going crazy and is also banging a hypnotist, and Vinnie Jones running around asking people what their function in life is and then killing them.
Clip from stories 1 and 2 (AUDIO IS REALLY NSFW AT END)
Trailer
Book: Maybe Pedro Paramo, though it’s one of the few books I re-read immediately on finishing it. Loved it.
3. Probably “The Other” in an intellectual context, or “postmodernism”, both as a word and a movement and the various theories that got swept up in it.
4. Hawaii, due to lack of additional data. The San Juans might qualify too, and that’s how much I’m reaching.
5. I think I remember Sorry being kind of frustrating at times but otherwise there was no one that I particularly disliked. Monopoly I could handle because I played loose with the rules and something funny would usually happen.
6. Eh… I don’t know. Easy answers come from the period of time when I was just getting into the idea of indie rock, so I’d say Interpol, TV on the Radio (great vocalist, never as interesting as people make them out to be), and maybe The Stills, whom I had some weird fondness for briefly.
7. I would play Fallout 3 if I had a console and a TV at the moment (I don’t want to run it on my laptop), but I had all kinds of reservations about it being loyal to the first two, and the fact that they pulled the plug on Black Isle while they were nearly to an alpha. Resident Evil may qualify for a successful reboot even if the old ones were okay by me, dumb plots and weak controls and all. I also might add Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as another awesome reboot, but the ones immediately after it blew and it’s been off and on since.
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I think I take the San Juans for granted.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
They're cold and rainy
but a completely different level of cold and rainy than the NW.
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If you liked the San Juans
you may also enjoy: “The Shetlands” “The Orkneys” “The Lofotens” “The Queen Charlottes”
Fantastic.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 7:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I took nature for granted before I moved here.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Nature exists to put malls and condo developments on
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That's getting close to where Roche Harbor is at now.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Just remined myself of the description RRS used to describe beach developments in Oz ...
“Legoland with chain restaurants”
That sucks.
Next time you are in Roche Harbor, check out the McMillan family mausoleum, it’s behind the cottages in the woods. Holy hell is it creepy and weird.
That place is great
Though definitely creepy. One of the chairs at the table is for a baby that I assume was stillborn, or at least died the day it was born.
I didn't know you could go in there.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 25, 2009 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it really?
I haven’t been out there for about 5 years.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I was up there this past summer.
They have a row of condos down the east side of the main drag now and along the west end they have a lot of trendy specialty shops and spas, with more construction on the way. The cottages over on the east end of the harbor remain untouched for now though.
I was talking with my dad about it and I think he told me some restaurateur bought the place up intending to make it a high-end destination type place. There were certainly some fancy boats in harbor too.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
That sucks but it would definitely make it more of a destination.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Game that needs a reboot - Alpha Centauri
that is all
That would be something.
I never played it, but I remember really wanting it at the time, and I do get addicted to Civilization IV again once every few months.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Alpha Centauri is by far the best game I have ever played, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Modern Warfare's multplayer was massively fun
but might as well just get MW2 in three weeks
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
RC is getting MW2?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
This could be epic.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I may have had some shyness issues with playing with you guys before
But I can guarantee that I am now a vicious and effective virtual killer.
You'd better be
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
To make up for you being on our team?
I kid, I kid
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Shit yeah, man
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know what I'll do without my DP-28 :(
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm going to laugh when you (or Coach) turns into a cold-blooded sniper
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll laugh too
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I just can't wait for SB to go silent after dying 5 times in a row.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Preceded by a long string of loud expletives
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
You can't hear me if my mic has been thrown out of the loft
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
That's why they happen before
“DAVID YOU’RE SO STUPID YOU SUCK AHH – *hiss sound”
And then you’re quiet until the end of the game
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Which, I should add usually involves me going on a 10-2 run
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
And the 2 deaths are from when you run across the room to pick up the controller
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I just get killed or booted because I'm downstairs getting food or beer.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
He always chimes in with
“I’m sorry guys”
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
At least he doesn't sugarcoat it
“yeah my uh, mic was, uh, it broke. i fixed it though”
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
THREE WEEKS
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
TWO POINT FIVE WEEKS
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
On this note.
Is there anything to do in Detroit?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
People with Fifa 10 and a PS3 need to get online and play me now!
One caveat: I absolutely suck at it.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
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by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
When I bought the game I decided to unleash City on the Sounders, but I somehow managed to get beat. :(
And I think Freddie scored the only goal. :/
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by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, YES, NO!
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
That is what I meant.
But what happens if a team you adopt in a lower division moves up?
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 26, 2009 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
This is my Stoke conundrum
I root for them openly as long as their getting a result won’t hurt Arsenal.
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Stoke are a nasty team.
They may appear cute with their long throws and ‘hustle’, but their fans are some of the most violent in the country. Support a nice harmless team like … Norwich?? Delia!
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by EnglishMariner on Oct 27, 2009 4:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm just going to pick whatever team Freddie plays for as long as I can understand their language and aren't full of satan
You have officially transformed into a 14-year-old girl.
by .Taylor on Oct 26, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
That better not have anything to do with being an Arsenal fan
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There is a surprising amount of 14-year-old girls who like Arsenal.
Maybe it’s Fabregas.
by .Taylor on Oct 26, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I went down 3-0 to Rovers at the Bridge with 10 minutes left to play.
Amazingly I won that game and I don’t think I cheated (does Kalou scoring a hattrick count as a bug exploit?).
I’m playing a season with Chelsea right now, bought Fredy Montero off the Sounders, and his first contribution was to tear Fernando Torres’s ACL. Then he scored the winning goal against Liverpool.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I was having a great time in Manager Mode and was second in the league, and then I lost to Preston in the FA Cup and then went down 1-0 at OT to United and for some reason they sacked me.
Hopefully the new patch will fix this.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
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by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Ditto actually, I beat Hull 3-0 and then got sacked!
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
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by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, Forza 3 is released today in Europe, but not until Tuesday in the US, annoyingly
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I have the new Forza, a legal copy, sitting right next to me.
Yay working at a video store
by Kirk on Oct 23, 2009 9:18 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Re: video game reboots,
The Secret of Monkey Island was recently remade and it still holds up as one of the funniest games of all time. Seriously, everybody needs to get this game so that they will be encouraged to remake other classic Lucasarts adventure games
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Yeah, I was impressed by how good the Monkey Island remake was.
It made me laugh a lot, and I don’t usually laugh at video games (except for Clive Barker presents Clive Barker’s Jericho, by Clive Barker…worst video game ever).
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 7:38 AM PDT up reply actions
When's the last time a good puzzle game was made?
Tetris is probably the most glorious of all puzzle games, but there’s been Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon/Pokemon Puzzle League that was pretty good, Bust A Move is pretty good, I remember Zoop being a big deal… but has anything good come out in this department in the last five years?
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:14 PM PDT reply actions
You got me on Bejeweled
but isn’t Snood just another version of Bust A Move?
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't know what Bust A Move is so I can't say
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
In Bust A Move, you shoot colored marbles into a field already filled somewhat with marbles.
If you connect three of the same color, they drop out of the puzzle, sometimes creating a chain reaction where other marbles also drop.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck yes it does
That game was excellent, and it kicked my brain’s ass
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, I feel I neglect to mention the old-school Dr. Mario.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
YES!
I just picked up Puzzle Quest this weekend, and proceeded to play it for fucking SIX HOURS STRAIGHT. So freaking addictive.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 7:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Games that need reboots:
Sierra’s Space Quest and King’s Quest series
Lucasarts’ X-Wing franchise
System Shock
I'd take Wing Commander a million times over X-Wing
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
X-Wing is amazing so shut your whore mouth
by Graham MacAree on Oct 23, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Super amazing
Definitely better than Wing Commander.
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't trust anything with the name Lucas
to reboot anything related to Star Wars in any good way.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Thankfully the guy that is in charge of their gaming division seems to have a good head on his shoulders
He approved Monkey Island’s reboot and has said that they can’t ignore the games that made the company popular
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes they did
And the new guy sounds like he is awesome
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
X-Wing vs Tie Fight > wing commander
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Xwing would end up on Nintendo though and get fucked hard.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh hells yes.
A reboot of the King’s Quest series would be amazing. I’d also toss in Quest for Glory, and the Lands of Lore series as well.
Oh, and Shining Force.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Shining Force, yes.
Solid tactical RPG. Nothing extraordinary as content went, but still good fun. Of course, we never got the third installment proper, but that seems to be a recurring thing. I’m continually frustrated by the knowledge that there are games in plenty of series that I enjoy that will never see the light of day in the U.S.
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by JY on Oct 26, 2009 7:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Kings Quest just got re released on steam didn't it?
I still want to see a iphone port of all the kings/space quest games.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Reboot Bubble Bobble.
I dare you.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:22 PM PDT reply actions
Sorta done already!
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
You just blew my mind.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
By the way, I found a nearly 10 year old NW Bowling newsletter that says I did better than you in some tournament way back when
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, well I won the Bantam Prep division of the 1998 Seattle Senior Open Pro Am
so fuck you.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Let them get their wrist guards on first.
by Sec 108 on Oct 23, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
And our shoe-protectors, since we'd probably have to take the fight outside and don't want to ruin our bowling shoes
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn't enter otherwise I'd have maybe won or something
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
But...
4 PLAYER BUBBLE BOBBLE! HOLY CRAP!
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I know it looks awesome!
I loved that game so hard as a kid. I still have the whole theme song memorized
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a guitar tab around here for it and play it occasionally.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
It was probably a King of the Hill tournament, actually.
I never seemed to be able to win one of those, though I was at practically every one.*
- I did manage to win two of them.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll check it again when I get home
I came across a random box of old bowling stuff and it contained all kinds of cool shit
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Patches, sucka.
They don’t even give out patches as bowling awards anymore. It’s pretty lame.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Sure they do
I got a bunch from last year. Of course, the junior patches were for lousy accomplishments like 140 games and 500 series
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Since I'm mentioned I feel obligated to reply
- My tastes don’t really change with the season, but I’m probably more likely to listen to more depressing music now, like Death Cab for Cutie or Alice in Chains, than I would typically. But most of my music choice come with what I’ve recently discovered more than any conscious change.
- Really poor at judging these things but I’d have to say Memento was the strangest movie because, well, I think it’s pretty obvious
- hella
- The Aleutians
- Chess. Maybe it’s just that I suck at it though
- The Strokes have never come to the same level as their first album. Third Eye Blind had an excellent first album and has since sucked. Weezer sucks now. The newer Flight of the Conchords stuff has disappointed me. Faith No More dropped off for me after Angel Dust. Maybe I’m doing this wrong though
- I’m not old enough to remember good video game franchises that could be remade. And I own a system which would have no remakes for my favorite old games. The new Perfect Dark sucked though.
Oh man I love all the Stokes albums!
But I don’t love that there are only three of them.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 2:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Sometimes a well placed "R" can make all the difference!
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a 30 percent off Borders coupon (don't hate on me for the chains; I usually go to EBC)
And I’m going to be on a plane to DC and back this weekend. What should I use it on?
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 23, 2009 3:39 PM PDT reply actions
I already have the virtuals though.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 23, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
It's better with the real books in front of you
you can throw them across the room when Jacob rape-kisses her more easily
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR SHOPPING AT CHAINS
There’s a new Chuck Klosterman if that’s your thing.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon"
“The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss.
You didn't make the "o" blue.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I hear about it all the time
but have thus far resisted it because it sounds gimmicky and most of the people I know who talk about it are pretentious in a hopelessly counterculture way.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Oct 23, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, to be honest, I've tried twice and never got more than halway through.
It’s interesting and very creepy, but it’s also a chore at times, and I just never had the dedication to finish it.
Great work of fiction, but if you don't pay attention, you'll get lost.
I loved it and I want to read it again when I have the time.
From Klaw Chat:
I’ve been asked about that trade rumor for three years but never answered while Ricciardi was still GM. The offer was made, though; I was there when the call came in. It was the first time I’d heard of Wright, since I wasn’t with Toronto in 2001 nor had I followed the draft when Wright was in it. JP’s reaction was, “I’m not trading a major league player for some guy in the Sally League.” And that was pretty much that. We had a chance to trade Cruz after that for Rafael Soriano, but JP refused to do it unless Seattle included Clint Nageotte, who, at the time, was a pretty hot prospect. It’s weird; I can’t remember some things that happened last week but I remember those conversations (over seven years ago now) like they just took place.
If only we had gotten Rafael Soriano in 1997!
We could have had Wright anyway.
And instead we drafted Michael Garciaparra.
Why do people keep reminding me of that?
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Since a member of my immediate family probably owns every major board game of the last 10 years
I can tell you that Apples to Apples is a terrible game. I don’t know if it’s overrated but I know that it’s bad.
Reverse stripping seems downright un-American
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I love apples to apples.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
My complaint with it is there are far too many rounds where none of your cards will either be funny or make sense to play
So you’re just stuck with a massive letdown for everyone involved who was expecting some humor.
Not that it can’t be funny with the right people playing and it’s a decent idea for a game but you’re limited by the subjects on the cards too much.
Rosie O'Donaldl always makes for a solid play.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoa there is a extra L in there.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
And a "D" and no "E"
Damn google.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Plus there's the auto-win card
Helen Keller.
I know our group took Helen Keller out of the deck because she wasn’t fair
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you know Helen Keller had a swingset in her backyard?
Neither did she.
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by pdb on Oct 23, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
Have you ever seen Hellen Kellers dad?
Neither has she.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I've found the game is hysterical if you have one or two really creative people who make up all of the green cards themselves
and just call them out as the game goes along
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I can see this game getting out of hand when drunk.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember when my Mother in Law picked "Toys" for inspirational.
Over Abraham Lincoln.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
My wife lost it.
And just went off – It was hysterical.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I think my favorite was when my roommate the word "Fuzz" for the green card "Fuzzy"
needless to say, he won that one
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Apples to Apples is a great game for in-jokes.
I don’t know exactly how, but the card “wheat” managed to become a card that always seems to win with me.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Apples to Apples is great if you have people that get easily frustrated
I refuse to pick the answers that make the most sense, and it is the logical people who can’t think outside the box that start flipping out when I refuse to match “french fries” with “salty.”
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 23, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
The game is just as much a test of how well you know your friends as how good your sense of humor is
and always just reinforces that some people are really, really uninteresting
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
None of the commentary on this game makes the least bit of sense to me, as I've never heard of it. Well, until now
There's a green card with an adjective
players have 6 cards with nouns. Players try to fit the noun that best suits the given adjective. To put it simply.
by Mariner John on Oct 23, 2009 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
So fucking wrong.
You just have to play it with the right crowd.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 7:42 AM PDT up reply actions
On a party-game tangent, Catchphrase is awesome.
And I am awesome at Catchphrase. Very awesome. Like teaming with me is an auto-win awesome.
Does it annoy anyone else when your work says you need to fly to detroit.
But won’t tell you when?
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The only places I've had to fly for work are Lake Tahoe and Steamboat Springs.
The “when” part would bug me though, yes.
The farthest I've ever had to travel for work was Hollywood.
Which is awesome. Because I despise traveling.
It was either Miami or Detroit.
Don’t ask me how Detroit got picked.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 23, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Games that need rebooted-Need for Speed
As in, NFS has been terrible since Hot Pursuit 2 and needs rebooted back to when it was good(though I did enjoyed Most Wanted).
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
Shift seems to be pretty good
The demo is awesome. Probably the best game at making you feel like you’re behind a wheel at 150 mph. Engine sounds are amazing and the cars drive pretty great also. And the effects from when you crash actually make you want to avoid collisions
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I've heard good things about Shift, namely because it seems to be a departure from what the last half dozen NFS games did.
I’m probably going to pick it up some time next week.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
NFS Porsche Unleashed was one of my all-time favorite games
by Robert Lintott on Oct 24, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, Porsche Unleashed and Hot Pursuit 2 are probably my favorites in the series. With Most Wanted being a close 3rd.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
They didn't release an MLB Power Pros for 2009
so I bought the 2008 version on ebay… but the fact that there was no 2009 game made me sad.
That probably doesn’t count as a “reboot” though.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 3:54 PM PDT reply actions
For you gamers out there
what are the chances this guy gets more than 5% of what he’s asking for this lot?
Many people who play such games do not seem to understand why they do not retain value.
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I am going to offer him his choice of $8 or double the GameStop buy price
just to see which one he chooses.
I’m fairly certain double the GameStop buy price will be like $5
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah he may be retarded
Who would buy the whole lot? Oooh, the 2k4 and 2k5 versions of ESPN baseball, as well as the non-ESPN branded 2k6?
Seriously, he’d be lucky to have somebody offer $15 for Halo 2 and demand that he throw the rest in on top of that for use as decorative coasters
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't get over that he bought a poker game and Bad Boys Miami Takedown in the first place
Let alone that he wants people to pay $10 for them.
I'll bet most of those games aren't even backward compatible with the 360
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the best part is that he's offering a whole $15 discount if you take all 13 games
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Buy a dozen and I'll make it a baker's dozen for FREE!
It’s a bargain at twice the price!
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Does GameStop have the buy prices listed online?
Someone should figure out what the total value of those games is, but if I’m remembering correctly, they buy NCAA Football ’08 for like $1, and the sports games are all at least two years beyond that so…
by seattlebruin on Oct 23, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
No, but you can get them from Amazon.com
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I enjoy these questions!
Music listening habits definitely change. Listening to a lot more Wipers, Dead Moon, Melvins, etc. these days.
Book. It’s a non-fiction account of a child sexual abuse/satanic cult case in Olympia in the 1980s that was based entirely on “recovered memories.” The details of the case are astoundingly bizarre and if you are a skeptic it will make your brain sad. Definitely worth a read.
Movie. Campy Thai western. Absolutely gorgeous colors, beautifully shot, great action sequences, weirder than shit. I love it.
Nosh
Aleutians
I like Monopoly is some contexts but it is definitely way overrated.
The Blue Album was one of the best debuts of the 1990s, Pinkerton is the best power-pop album ever realeased, and everything since then has been an embarrassment. Weezer makes me sad.
Oooh recovered memories, I completely forgot they were the rage for a diagnosis in the '90's.
Oprah may have been the crown on that jewel.
What's fun is when you agree to go to someone's college play because they're a friend or whatever without really investigating what play it is
Then you show up and find out it’s Equus.
It's one way to be forgotten as "that Harry Potter kid"
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by JY on Oct 23, 2009 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Monopoly seems to be a consensus-overrated choice
but it’s actually a pretty good game if you have the right people playing it who have an interest in making the game play quickly and like to make trades. In a game like that, Monopoly can be a bit of a frenzy, and actually fun.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 23, 2009 4:37 PM PDT reply actions
See, I used to play it several times a week with friends
And we’d make games stretch on for hours sometimes, enjoying it all the way. Cook up a few rule changes and openly make trades and alliances early on, and the game is a blast
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Rail Baron is the best board game ever.
Axis and Allies is damn good too as was Broadsides and Boarding Parties.
MORE!
Reboot: Leisure Suit Larry. I have no idea what this would be, though I’m told parts of GTA got close. Maybe an Arkanoid reboot? The blocks are a form of Terrorism, and you need to destroy them to save freedom?
Archipelagoooooo onnnnn: I wonder what some of the weirder places named after small british islands are like. I’ve not been to the Orkneys, but I’ve REALLY not been to the South Orkneys. I HAVE been to the Sandwich Islands, but not the South Sandwich Islands. How does France own New Caledonia? That seems odd. New Hebrides, or fuck it, New Britain. Basically, I want to conduct a lot more archipelago research.
And since I haven’t seen the campy Thai western, the weirdest movie I have seen is clearly ‘Funky Forest.’
Already done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry:_Box_Office_Bust
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 25, 2009 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I mean a reboot done right
via Wikipedia: “although, unlike Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, this game does not contain nudity and sexual content…”
I’m not a video game buyer anyway, but a PG rated LSL makes as much sense to me as a no-kill Call of Duty.
“Game stats: 23 Wehrmacht tickled, 12 SS bested in Arm Wrestling; your limerick was defeated by the luftwaffe captain.”
MechWarrior Reboot
Announced in July for the 360 and PC
They say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing all the time!
That takes me back.
I used to play MechWarrior 2 for days. The expansion pack too, and the Mercenaries thing that was roughly of the same generation. I don’t know what the appeal was exactly. Could just be making really weird robots and seeing if I could still fight competently with them. Then 3 came out, and they had changed publishers, removed my favorite mech, and the specs were too high for my machine anyway. Even when I bought a better system, I couldn’t get back into it.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Oct 23, 2009 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
The Farming Game is a good board game, kind of a Monopoly type thing.
A decent follow up to N64 GoldenEye would have been nice, the controls were simple and intuitive. Everything I’ve played after was a huge disappointment.
IMO, to this day it's still far and away the best FPS of all time.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
Lawrence of Arabia
Best theatrical soundtrack of time or best theatrical soundtrack of all time?
On a side note, youtube is the only possible place where you can see both a vitriolic discussion on race politics and a discussion of the main character’s true sexuality on the same music video. I am aware this is harped on a lot, but someone needs to take the system of youtube commenting as a whole behind a shed and put it down.
Lawrence is one of the most amazing movies ever made, and the score it glorious.
However, while I am not generally a fan of crediting lasting greatness to contemporary works, I cannot imagine a better score to any film than Johnny Greenwoods’ work on There Will Be Blood. It is completely and totally revolutionary. It was absolutely masterful in its ability to make abstract music not only palatable but understandable by wide audiences. Just completely amazing work.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 24, 2009 1:59 AM PDT up reply actions
With that said, Lawrence in 35 with full Dolby Digital Surround is a life-changing experience.
David Lean is criminally underrated.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 24, 2009 2:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Agreed the soundtrack in Blood was brilliant...
very Kubrician!
The songs are much more mainstream, but I love the way Richard Kelley uses music in his movies.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 2:02 AM PDT up reply actions
The use of music in film is so very much about feel, and timing, and a sense of drama/irony/humor/tragedy/etc.
I mean for God’s sake, look at the music in Scorcese’s films; girl groups and bubblegum pop mostly, but the music is always so pitch-perfect he even managed to make Dropkick Murphys not terrible, which is a feat in and of itself.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 24, 2009 2:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Good point! about Marty
I just read a quote from Kubric he was explaining how he had done the pre production version of 2001 using a soundtrack very similar to the one we all heard and he had a someone scoring the film for him with original music when he had the realization
“However good our best film composers may be, they are not a Beethoven, a Mozart or a Brahms. Why use music which is less good when there is such a multitude of great orchestral music available from the past and from our own time? When you are editing a film, it’s very helpful to be able to try out different pieces of music to see how they work with the scene…Well, with a little more care and thought, these temporary tracks can become the final score”
Seems like a no brainer now, but it was a breakthrough then.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 2:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Stanley Kubrick was a different quantity than what you might expect were you to perform a mathematical function involving his various abilities
and I will leave it at that, with the only statement of judgment being that I have a tremendous amount of respect for the man and his innovations.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 24, 2009 2:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Well christ blue...
that could go either way. Was the quantity greater or less than the function?
I will say he made Peter Sellers shine and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman do something with real meaning. A lot of people knock Eyes Wide Shut, but I think it is one of the more honest relationship movies I have seen.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
by Rich Langford on Oct 24, 2009 3:08 AM PDT up reply actions
I just re-watched Big night
which has a fine mix of “contemporary” American and Italian pop music and Gary DeMichele’s score
Greenwoods' Blood was amazing
I still listen to it all the time, and for some reason it has become my go-to music when playing games such as Call of Duty and the like.
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by tootthekazoo on Oct 24, 2009 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
That's funn you'd mention 'There will be blood,"
as I’d put that down for “strangest movie I have ever seen.” In a good way, of course,
The summer is filled with more Sublime, Bob Marley, Weezer, Beastie Boys and as the fall slides into winter it is much more Muse, The Doors, Tool, Mars Volta and classical.
With strangest movie I am going with Eraserhead. It was totally worth it. David Lynch leaves me with the cool introspective kind of haunted feeling.
Strangest book is tough. Nothing really comes to mind. I guess I have to go with The Glass Bead Game. I am not sure strange is the right word for it, probably more visionary, but the end of that book has never left my psyche.
Has anyone ever read Illuminatus?
I am not sure strange is the right word for that either, probably more imaginative.
Disappointing musician is far and away hands down Chris Cornell. Dude what happened? Talk about someone losing their edge. The Rage Against the Machine band couldn’t even save him from his trip to vaginaville.
Honorable Mention: Gwen Stefani, The Tea Party, Zack De La Rocha, Axl Rose, Dr. Dre, and I know a bunch more will come to me.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
Biggest music disappointment
For me this year has got to be Rammstein. They took a turn for the tacky with the newest album, and I went from being a huge fan to being almost embarrassed to admit I ever liked them. The whole ‘sex-as-shock’ schtick wore thin for me a LONG time ago, and they have figured out a way to make it worse. Schlechte Form, Herren.
As for Fall listening, I seemed to have gone back to anything by Underworld and Ohgr’s Welt album for some reason. Not sure why, as I normally associate that stuff with summer, but it seems to be what’s in my car lately.
I would also be happy if I never had to hear the phrase “reality star” ever, ever again. You’re famous for not using birth control, or marrying someone, or lying. You didn’t actually DO anything to gain your notoriety, you’re just an insecure douchebag who needs the rest of the world to know your problems. Enough, already.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
I figured out others
I have been fascinated with the Maldives since I became obsessed with Google Earth a few months ago. I spent some of my unemployment days early this year taking virtual “vacations”, and found the Maldives by accident; I had never heard of them before that.
I can’t pick just one weird movie. My husband and I are huge fans of anything weird, and my list is LONG. :/
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Ah yes.
I remember you bringing up movies that I had never heard of with some frequency.
Do try to come up with an incomplete list if you can.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Hmmm.
That is a challenge, honestly. We usually choose them by title, or the brief description that Netflix affords us. Let me give it a whirl….
Island of Death
The Room
Big Man Japan
Blades (yes, plural; NOT the vampire movie)
Anything from Five Minutes to Live.com (seriously, their Lost & Found collections are amazing)
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
Can’t Stop the Music (mad props to Steve Gutenberg!)
The Day the Earth Stopped (C Thomas Howell can go straight to Hell)
Rock n Roll Nightmare
Rock n Roll Nightmare II: The Intercessor (really, they should be watched in order. God help you)
There are shitloads more, but these are the ones I can come up with off the top of my head. I cannot recommend them enough.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
And
Since nobody warned me, I will NOT allow others to go before me unheeded – there is a goat-fucking scene in Island of Death. Just so there’s no ‘two-girls-one-cup’-esque shock for anyone…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Trouble Everyday. My sister gave me a similar warning, but at the time that increased the desire to see the film.
Ugh. Horrible, long lasting trauma. Perhaps there is a cerebral explanation and reason for the that movie to exist. I’m not sure if I’d care to hear it, maybe. That movie had some issues.
Netflix is going to think there is something terribly wrong with us
Then again ,we own some of these. Above all else, I recommend The Room. It is the right mix of horrible and what-the-fuck, and it’s freaking brilliantly bad.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Is it worth the cost to upgrade?
I really have no beefs with Vista other than the amount of RAM it needs to run, since I don’t do much on the computer other than surf the web and watch baseball.
Yeah know what sucks?
When you are installing a new OS like Windows 7,but before you do you make sure you’ve got everything backed up. You double check and you triple check. And you are pretty sure you’ve got it. So you wipe your drive and install the OS only to find THAT YOU FUCKING FORGOT TO BACKUP YOUR FUCKING BOOKMARKS!
FUCK!
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
Look who they were playing
you, me, and marc w would look incredible against Blackburn.
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Blackburn sucked, but I was still mightily impressed by the way Chelsea played.
Every time I watch, Drogba is in his own world, where mortals just can’t tough him. I’ve decided to root for Liverpool, but Chelsea blows my fucking mind.
You've decided to root for Liverpool?
Why do you hate yourself?
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I can't wait till tomorrow
to see how many beach balls actually make it into the ground.
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OK, I'm going to lay this out so I have a reference:
Here’s the deal: I’m new to British soccer. I have no allegiance. I’m looking for a team to root for. Here’s how it went:
1. Chelsea is amazing, but they’re too good. It’s too easy to jump on that train as a newcomer.
2. I don’t want to root for a team that could be relegated.
3. I’ve never so much as stepped a foot in Europe, so I have no allegiance to anything.
4. I wanted to pick a team that was fun to watch and that would be on TV regularly so I could watch.
5. TORRES gives me a boner.
6. Gerrard!
7. They’re on FSC or ESPN almost every weekend.
8. They’re fun to play with in video games.
9. My only friend at work who likes soccer is an Irish guy who is a huge Liverpool supporter, so I have someone to talk soccer with.
10. They’re in a stretch of misery that makes me feel a little better — makes me feel like I’m not jumping on a bandwagon when everything is going well. I’ve established over my lifetime that I enjoy rooting for fuck-ups. This just feels right.
So that’s pretty much it. I’m not a die-hard, and I have yet to tattoo “You’ll Never Walk Alone” onto my chest, but they’re the team I’m leaning toward. I reserve the right to fall in love with another team, and I just well might. But until then, Go Reds!
The only thing I have against Liverpool
is that they stole the FA Cup from Arsenal the only year I actually got to see an FA Cup Final in person. Michael Goddamn Owen can go blow a goat as far as I’m concerned – even though he’s not Liverpool any more. Still. You could do worse than be a Liverpool supporter. But if I ever hear You’ll Never Walk Alone again in person I will cut a bitch.
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It does seem a little bit weird. Not a very intimidating song. But then maybe that's why I find it great. It's so unexpected.
Teams that I will consider rooting for should my heart turn away from Liverpool:
Chelsea
Arsenal
Man City (Adebayor . . . some boner as Torres)
Stoke City.
So that’s pretty much my list.
Go with Stoke
Adebayor can suck the same goat as Owen. Sloppy goat seconds.
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When I think of Stoke I think of an American Football team with Rory Delap at quarterback
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
that's not too far off
one of my best friends grew up in Stoke which is the only reason I follow them at all, and that’s a pretty apt description. I’m amazed they’re not relegation fodder. And they beat Spurs today so that’s awesome.
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I didn't even notice that
I was too busy absorbing the fact that the announcers for Chelsea-Blackburn thought that we could have won 10-0 if we were trying to
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Which is actually true
from the 15 minutes I saw at least. I don’t know how they didn’t score more.
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Robinson had an amazing first half
Then Essien broke him.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw two good saves
is he still England’s #1 at this point?
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You should plan on taking next June/July off and go to SA
you could probably do as well as any of the England keepers.
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I am a really really really poor soccer goalkeeper
Butterfly just does not work on grass
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
you'd have to be a really big butterfly to cover that size of a goal
or have really big pads.
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Hence me being quite bad at it
Nobody nutmegs me though!
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I would hope not
all you’d have to do is stick a skate blade out and they’d be gushing blood in seconds.
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Oh, I'd get to wear pads?
That would make corner kicks hilarious
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
It would be funny to see how far a ball would bounce off a blocker
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Outfield is much more fun
It’s impossible to make someone look retarded as a goalkeeper
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, it's much easier to flatten people and get away with it as keeper.
But yeah, I love the free-flowing beauty of the game and I don’t really feel it from in the net… Too much standing around.
And it's easy to end up looking retarded yourself as a keeper
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One goal still haunts me...
A decently hit shot that was headed about 2 feet in from near post so I set up in a crouch to receive it. My defender deflected it slightly about 5 yards out and it just rolled right into the near post past me and for some reason I was just frozen.
You can end being the hero or scapegoat very easily.
Have vivid memories of both as someone who played a lot of rec league keeper back in the day.
And on a side note, I’d think the Sounders popular success is at least partly due to our strong rec soccer leagues in the Pac NW, where almost all kids play at an early age.
I have a spare ticket for City Vs Chelsea in December if you are randomly in England at that time!
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
What score are we predicting for Liverpool Vs United tomorrow?
I’m going for a 0-3, with Rafa being sacked on Monday morning!
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
One of my friends is going to be in the director's box at Anfield for that game
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
George Gillett?
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
We play Fulham and to be honest I'm more looking forward to getting a Balti Pie from the ground than the actual game.
Those pies are immense.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 24, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Tonights game postponed until tomorrow
so says Joel Sherman.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
Not surprised.
I’ve heard intermittent thunder for about half an hour now.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Oct 24, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I like this post.
Tomorrow will be 3 wks since reg season ended, and Yanks have played 8 games since then #fixthepostseasonsked
Jaqua has no actual ability
He’s just tall
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
He's actually got more actual ball skills than I would've thought, but it doesn't matter
when you’re that slow. I mean, it’s not like the league features the world’s fastest players, but he’s a guy whose value is just crushed because he’s just two step slower than anyone.
I want to see Zakuani at striker replacing Jaqua for next season.
Improves both positions, as Zakuani seems to be a liability in defense.
Why do I have a feeling that this is all going to culminate with us being shutout in the MLS Cup Final
Count me in as a season ticket holder next season, the Sounders have me excited about MLS soccer for the first time ever.
Speaking of which, can someone who's gone to a game tell me about GA seating?
I’m thinking of getting GA season tickets for me and my wife next season, but how are they?
Don't sit in GA unless you are prepared to go batshit insane for 90 minutes, are ok with obstructed views and hear stuff that would make a gamethread blush
Sounds like my kind of experience, but I'm not sure my wife would be ok with that.
What’s the best value seats in the house, then?
My guess is that they will slide the unhappy people in GA over to the Hawks Nest and let the supporters take over the South End.
It's a pity, there's been some friction between the hard core supporters and
the Safeco style sports crowd.
I just got off the phone with ECS's ticket rep with the Sounders after putting down my deposit for tickets.
Sounds like they are expanding GA to the section above it and are trying to kick out the families so there is less complaining. Awesome.
In small doses, it can be awesome.
Empty seats aren’t great, but I think they can do it right. The demand is high as fuck, from what I can tell.
More noise!
As long as they don't open it all at once, I'm fine with it.
The Hawks nest is going to be awesome for next season. Definitely going to get some single season tix for there.
Wing back quality in the MLS is pretty awful though
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
He's a really shitty defender and a decent attacker
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Same on the soccer eye.
I only started seriously paying attention to professional soccer when the Sounders’ MLS entrance was announced, so I tend for now to trust other’s judgment. Learning fast, though.
I'll definitely trust the eyes of our resident Briton over mine.
Soccer’s a hard game to assess. I won’t pretend that I know more than I do. But Riley smokes pole.
The MLSnet.com feed is crashing every four minutes.
If I had paid more than pocket change for this service, I’d be furious. What a piece of shit.
Sometimes goals are like "oh yeah nice, I've totally scored like that before."
But sometimes they’re like “HOLY SHIT HOW THE FUCK!?”
I think the Sounders could give Chelsea a run for their money if only they were given the opportunity.
I don't care about this so much, I just want the best soccer experience that's out there right now.
But FIFA seems to have better support anyway.
I've had the game 2 days and I can already tell that FIFA is going to surpass NCAA Football 2003 as my most played sports game of all time
It really is fantastic.
The idea of “360 degree dribbling” seems like a stupid marketing ploy, but it it really is amazing. You can feel it. Passing and moving feel so much better than they have in previous soccer games.
Crosses are really difficult in the new version though
In FIFA 09 I could score pretty regularly off crosses and corners. This one I only score on those by accident.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Really?
I couldn’t do SHIT with crosses in FIFA 09, and I’m having much better luck in the new game.
In FIFA 09, I couldn’t get a cross or a corner to land withing 20 yards of where I wanted it do. And if I managed to do so, it was right at a defender’s head.
Alright, but the resounding answer is Fifa?
I always owned FIFA but my last soccer game was Winning Eleven 9 and it was better than any FIFAs I ever played.
I used to only buy a soccer game every two or three years, so I'm no expert . . .
but FIFA has caught and surpassed PES in the past three years. EA simply has the better game. Here or some links to reviews:
I played PES for a while and it’s not awful, but FIFA is just better.
Alright, cool, thanks for the info.
I know it’s been a back-and-forth thing but I wasn’t sure who was leading at this point.
I love lots of games, but sports games draw me in a ton… especially soccer and baseball.
PES was always considered to be the better game when I was growing up.
But EA seems to have turned it on in the past five years. Even the PES loyalists seem to have switched over. EA done good.
Alright, after reading your guys' opinions and looking elsewhere, it looks like FIFA wins out.
I hope Konami steps it up next year, this healthy competition is good for the genre.
Not sure about their basketball games but FIFA, NCAA football, Madden and NHL(from what I hear) have been off the charts.
I know its easy to hate on EA for their complacency and exclusive agreements but when they have a year like this you really have to give them credit.
Yup.
I was never on the “EA is Satan” bandwagon that it seemed everyone on the Internet enjoyed, but I was always skeptical of the intentions of a company that bought out competition. To see EA succeed as they have in the past two years has been incredible.
Yep, Pro Evo was the King up until PE 4. Since there Fifa has matched and surpassed it.
That said, both games are good. It’s not like you would buy PE and be devastated, they both have their benefits and flaws.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2009 6:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I've been looking for a pro/con list of both but I can't find it...
But I think if FIFA is getting that much better reviews across the board, I’m probably more likely to enjoy it. MLS is a nice bonus, as well.
They used to go straight
Now they swerve like they would in real life
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the swerving, I guess.
Every corner I ever took in FIFA 09 was just a line drive to the defender’s head. I couldn’t get a shot off.
As you could probably tell from our previous private conversation, I don't know shit about shit
I’m the blind lady you need to lead across the street.
This might be a bit early for this topic,
but what do people think of Ljungberg pulling a Beckham and playing 2 months in the EPL during the offseason?
Not going to happen.
Wenger doesn’t take players back once they leave. there are rumors that Vieira might come back, but even that would surprise me – Freddie doesn’t have the pace or the technique to play at Arsenal any more.
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He is very good at not shooting though
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Arsenal have enough players with that particular skillset thank you
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They'd be the first team
to play a 2-6-2 and only score 41 goals a season.
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Pay no attention
to an article that starts “reports have suggested”. What that means is that Sky Sports were having a slow day and decided to invent a “report” “suggesting” that this could happen.
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True, but it was acknowledged he was in London.
Combined with Ljungberg and his agent’s coyness, and it’s not a complete longshot.
I wonder what would score more goals
Eight crunching tackle-long ball-no skill defenders with Sutton and Shearer in their primes, or Arsenal with their beautiful flowing football.
Actually I don’t really wonder.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Sutton and Shearer would go all Martin Taylor on Arsenal and break all their legs.
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Those two combined for like 50 goals one year didn't they?
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
As much as I never gave a goddamn about Newcastle
I always loved watching Shearer play.
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I was a very small child when he was at the top of his game for England
The man is a legend
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm going to don my cranky old man persona and mention
that Newcastle’s striker just before Shearer (when Shearer was winning the league with Blackburn) was a bat-shit insane Colombian called Faustino Asprilla.
He was something of a minor star/headeache the first year I started watching the EPL. I miss him, and I wouldn’t bat an eye if he died after snorting some bad coke off a model’s ass. Or a goat’s.
Shearer was a legend, but he was so boring.
It always used to piss me off when home fans would boo Shearer.
He is an absolute legend, and I like him even more for turning Fergie down and not joining United.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2009 6:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Beckham missed like 1/3rd of the MLS season that way
I also can’t see a side that Freddie would want to join that would actually accept a guy in a squad for two months. Milan did it, but Milan are crazy sons of bitches.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Plus as much as I hate to admit it
Freddie isn’t the player DB is at this point.
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At least not on a major-European-team stage
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Right, Beckham is still a really neat little tool to have once you have a great team and need a set-piece specialist
Freddie can carry a bad team more or less by himself
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I still think Montero could be a star in Europe though
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
It would totally depend on his mental state.
I could see him flaming out in a month, or becoming a star.
So he could go to Portsmouth or Hull and do a job
but he probably wouldn’t end up at a top-six side anyhere in Europe.
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He'd be pretty redundant above low-Championship level sides
But how about reversing the idea and have players come over during European offseasons? I’ll take Michael Essien for a few months, thanks.
Stupid World Cup ruins this little plan…
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
That would be awesome but for the world cup
but that doesn’t stop it happening in 2011.
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Well played but probably should be left alone right where it is
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Agreed. I wouldn't want to sink into the realm of trolling
by .Taylor on Oct 24, 2009 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Uh how was that not trolling?
Seriously, Taylor, this isn’t cool. I hate HH fans and you just gave them a reason to come here.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 24, 2009 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
This is secondhand, but someone who attended the game passed along
that Joe Roth told the crowd postmatch the whole stadium was being opened up for the playoffs. I’m guessing he misinterpreted Roth, as other sources have said merely 3K seats in the upper bowl. If what he said is correct, however, that will be pretty cool. Hope they can sell 60,000 +
The highlights
are now up for the Sounders match
Make sure to check out 4:28. Christ, Montero, can you be even more blatant?
Home from the game, editing some pictures, popped a bottle of champagne.
I love you Sounders, I do.
Oh Harris, you can’t just mock the fans like that and think karma won’t kick your ass.
Alright, so I need some recommendations from you good people.
I’m looking at buying a 16 gig mp3 player, whose two main purposes will be to be hooked up in my car, and plugged into the stereo at work. Now the stereo at work has an aux hookup, so that’s not a problem. However my car doesn’t have an aux hookup or a tape deck, so from what I can tell the only way to get it to play is to buy an FM transmitter.
So, does anybody have any good recommendations for mp3 players and/or have any experiences with these FM transmitters?
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
If you get an FM transmitter, be prepared to either spend a lot of money for a good one.
As in enough money that you might as well upgrade you stereo. You can get decks with aux inputs for well under $200 now and good FM transmitters are going to run you $75 and up.
Anything other than the highest tier is going to be almost unusable most of the time. The one I have cost $50 and only (kind of) works if I am more than 50 miles from any sort of moderately-populated area and crank the volume all the way, which is problematic because occasionally it will come in as clear as a bell out of nowhere and blast me into tinnitus-land. It is basically the world’s most expensive iPhone car charger at this point. You’ll have less of a problem being outside of the city, but I could barely get reception on I-90 the whole way from Seattle to Missoula this summer.
I’d honestly look at something like this. Or if you don’t want to/can’t do the install yourself, spend $150 at Best Buy or something and get free installation.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 25, 2009 1:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I bought a cheap little $15 FM transmitter that actually works pretty well
Although that’s not the typical result most people get from them for sure. You basically have to get lucky because most of them only allow you to broadcast on 4 different stations (like 89.1, 89.3, 89.5, 89.7) and if all of those stations are already in use in the area you’re in, you’re SOL.
If you do manage to find a station that’s completely not in use and not getting interference from other channels which are in use close to it, the cheap ones can actually work really well, but it’s pretty much a crapshoot whether they’ll work or not.
I bought a $60 one and it sucked, I feed mine through the tape deck now.
I’d buy a cheap deck if I was otherwised forced to use an FM transmitter.
As for MP3 players… I just use my iPhone now, but before I used a Creative Zen Vision M 30GB and it was great. The best thing to look for in car-use MP3 players is probably easiness of choosing songs/albums/playlists from the corner of your eye.
I have a $30 transmitter and I have never had that problem
(I also live in a city where there isn’t a station on every other channel so that helps)
I’d recommend feeding it through the tape deck because the sound is vastly superior
I faced the same problem last year and went a different route.
I replaced the shitty factory deck in my car with an iPod capable one (charges and allows you to control the iPod from the dash player). It ran me just under 100 (I got a good deal) and did the install myself. Well worth it.
This is what I did.
I got my Kenwood deck on Best Buy online for 80 bucks.
As for a mp3 player check craigslist. Its flooded with ipod/zunes – I recommend get a 16GB nano though – great battery life.
NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!
by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Has anyone played Borderlands yet?
I’m intrigued, but I’m already planning on buying Modern Warfare 2 and maybe Dragon Age….and then Diablo 3 isn’t that far away….
Borderlands is what you get when you cross WoW with a first-person shooter.
It’s worth the 60 bucks in every way. Ridiculously fun.
The Yankees suck-a-doodle-doo!
by JamMasterJesus on Oct 25, 2009 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions
For sure
I’ve been waiting for Starcraft 2 for years already and now it’s not looking like that’ll be out until 2011. But they seem pretty deadset on getting D3 out before the new year.
Hopefully.
I’ve been playing D2 recently, and it has actually aged very well. D3 is definitely at the top of my list.
2011?
Last I heard, the first installment of Starcraft 2 was supposed to be First Quarter 2010. I was hoping for this holiday season initially, but what are you going to do?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
I could be wrong but I heard they pushed it back again
Which would make sense because they don’t want two of their own games competing with one another.
I don't see how that would be a problem.
SC2 was announced first, by over a year, and is further along as far as anyone knows. By delaying that, it would probably just delay D3. Besides, they haven’t released anything that isn’t WOW since 2003.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Oct 25, 2009 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Okay, more beer talk.
So I am obviously on a winter ale kick. Last year I was all over the malty stuff; Alaskan, Winter Solstice (which is still my favorite,) Jubelale, Old Jubilation, that sort of thing.
While I’m still digging those, I’m finding myself veering more towards the hoppier stuff this year; Celebration is great as always, and I am rediscovering my love for Winter Fish. The only thing is that this style of Winter is a bit harder to come by.
Anyone have any recommendations for this kind of style? They’re definitely IPAs at heart, but they’re spicier, maltier, with a bit more complex and warming quality.
Maybe not what you're looking for...
But Trader Joe’s has Mission St. IPA at ~$6 for a six-pack. I didn’t think it was too bad, kind of lighter than what I’m used to from an IPA, not as much aftertaste. Good beer, the price might be influencing my opinion.
For that hoppy style, I'm not sure I've had better than Winter Fish.
But I think the one to try is Rogue’s ’Santa’s Private Reserve’ – it’s based on a red ale, so it’s much hoppier than most. I just think Winter Fish’s spruce/pine kick gives it a slight leg up. It’s also much hoppier even than the Rogue.
Had a casked winter fish the other day… I wouldn’t have it every night, like I would w/Alaskan, but it’s a treat.
Oh, and out of curiousity, did you find Winter Solstice to be a bit… down this year? It’s still damn good, but I think Alaskan is slightly better this year, whereas last year (the past few years really), I’d have given the edge to Winter Solstice.
It is not as good as it was last year to be certain, but I still think it's a tick above Alaskan and Jubelale.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 25, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Fair enough.
It’s still clearly ahead of Jubelale, which is more a consistent B, B+ beer, whereas Solstice varies between A+ and A/A-. Alaskan seems better this year, I don’t know.
In any event, choosing between Alaskan and Winter Solstice is a damn fine position to be in.
That's pretty dead-on with respect to Jubelale.
I but it when it’s on sale, which is often, but I will pay $12 for a six-pack of Winter Solstice. I will say that I almost certainly will not be buying the AV as much this year as I did last year, as the difference in quality between it and Alaskan is not enough to justify the premium to the same extent.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 25, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
FUCK FULHAM, FUCK WEST LONDON, FUCK FOOTBALL, FUCK THE WORLD.
I HATE YOU ALL.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2009 10:32 AM PDT reply actions
THAT WAS SOME FUCKED UP SHIT RIGHT THERE
it’s games like that that make me predict a 6th place finish for Arsenal this year. Gotta finish off the games you’re leading, especially against teams that HAVEN’T WON SINCE OPENING GODDAMN DAY
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Clint Dempsey scored the equaliser
Clint Dempsey
by Graham MacAree on Oct 25, 2009 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
He's actually kind of OK in that system.
He’s not, you know, actually GOOD, but Hodgson gets a lot out of his players.
SHUT UP.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, for some reason there are zero football related statuses on my facebook right now...
Which considering I am part of the Manchester network and both football teams played today is a little unusual. ;)
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it's popular enough but all the travelling involved would probably be an issue
It’s one thing for a couple teams to do it once or twice a year but I’m not sure how well it would work when teams are asked to do it regularly.
Realignment would help with that
Miami to the AFC South, JAX to London/AFC East. Give every team a two byes a year, expand the regular to 18 games and kill two preseason games. Sure it might hurt the West coast teams a little bit more but its not like they play like gangbusters on the East Coast as it is and non divisional teams would only have to make the trip every ~8 years.
NY/BOS/PHI-LHR is a ~5 hour flight
It’s no worse than NY/SEA or SEA/MIA. As long as West coast teams aren’t asked to do it regularly it should be fine.
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I agree but JAX is in some serious shit that makes the situation alot different from the Sonics situation.
Yeah they don't come close to filling the stadium they already have
That market just isn’t big enough to justify a pro football team.
You'd have to think LA would get a team first
I can’t believe LA doesn’t have two teams, let alone one
It's a strain
but it’s certainly more likely than having a MLB team overseas.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
I would have to become more interested in NFL is that happened.
I’m not convinced the game is popular enough yet to sell out Wembley for an entire season with regular NFL ticket pricing, but it is certainly gaining in popularity every year.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 25, 2009 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
So to echo what Robert said a while ago
Freddie Ljungberg arguing with game officials scares the living shit out of me.
Again, I’m still trying to figure this whole game out, but did Leo Gonzalez have as good a game as I thought he did? Am I wrong for feeling that Nate Jaqua might be the most frustrating player on this squad?
Leo really needed to close down Harris on Dallas' goal, but he's a solid player.
As for Jaqua, it depends on what you mean by frustrating. I was frustrated by Brad Evans complete inability to do anything right for about two months there, and he lost his starting job because of it. And then he shows flashes of real ability, like he did last night. He’s still not a great midfielder, but my criticism shall go on hiatus for a while after that goal.
So when I bought Sounders playoff tickets, there were multiple options in the upper bowl.
Perhaps they are going to open more than the 3,000 seats they initially announced.
Well now I feel stupid for not seeing whatever you're seeing.
by .Taylor on Oct 25, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
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Milwaukee, meanwhile, traded Mo Williams to Cleveland and Desmond Mason to Oklahoma City a year ago as part of a three-team deal for the purpose of dumping salary, and traded Richard Jefferson to San Antonio for another $5 million in cap relief. It also let Charlie Villanueva and Ramon Sessions walk as free agents this past summer. It will remain buried in the standings, but not quite as deep in debt.
An NBA team hasn’t moved since Vancouver headed to Memphis in ’01, but the market is ripe for another shift. Memphis and Sacramento, which ranked last in attendance last season, seem the prime candidates, but almost anything is possible in the current state of despair.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 25, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I never believed it until now but there is a conspiracy amongst NFL referees to give the Pittsburgh Stealers as many breaks as possible
What?
What play gave Pittsburgh the game?
by Mariner John on Oct 25, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Fantom trip that erased a TD pass would have put Favre ahead
Pittsburgh forced a fumble on the next play and ran the ball back for a TD
ALL OF THEM BECAUSE FUCK THE GOD DAMN STEELERS
FUCK THEM SO MUCH AND SO HARD THAT BEN ROTHLISBERGER GETS IN A GAY CRASH THAT LETS HIM DIE.
by Kirk on Oct 26, 2009 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'd rather Pittsburgh win than Brett Favre.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I just saw the play on replay
And would have to disagree. It was tripping.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn't see those.
I just kept hearing people complain about fantom tripping.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The one that made me flip my lid was a no call when Pat Williams was tackled
from behind just as he was about to hit Roethlisberger. It was a big gainer too that kept a drive alive.
My fall listening just took a sharp turn...
I listen to more jazzy and low stuff anyway around this time of year, but I discovered today that Morphine released a new double album of unreleased tracks, variations, and live recordings.
I can’t believe it’s been ten years since Sandman died.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Another addendum
A word I could do without hearing: “interesting”.
I doubt any class I’ve been at at the college level, or even the high school level, has gone five minutes of voicing an opinion without using it. It basically means nothing at this point.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Oct 26, 2009 6:30 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm guilty of overusing that word
And I hate myself for it.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
How is that album?
I found that their first B-sides album was almost unlistenable.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions
The new stuff is mostly better than that.
(title line included because I tend to ramble and some would rather minimize that)
But you also have to deal with the fact that over half the album is alternate takes and live sets, which is met with some success. On top of that, some of the “new songs” are just rehashes of the old ones, “Call Back” is just “Wishing Well” with different accompaniment, “I’d Catch You” is “Like a Mirror”, drawn out a little more, “Shade” and “Shadow” ( I Know You Part IV and V ) are nearly clones of each other and don’t add much that III didn’t already. They’re versions, not new material. “Lilah II” worked better as a one minute instrumental.
The live versions… I don’t know, I’m not the type to buy live albums in the first place. Sandman seems to forget the lyrics to his own songs at times, repeating things out of order that seem like they might have been right, omitting verses in favor of repeating another. The alternate takes aren’t particularly revealing either. “Buena” adds a piano, which feels natural, and some echoing synth stuff, which does not. “Empty Box” becomes funereal. “Free Love” becomes something more drunken and sinister than it even was previously, but the emphasis shifts from the singing, which is remarkably restrained, to the instruments. “Super Sex” becomes a percussion-driven piece that lacks the foreign delirium of the original. There’s another version of “The Night” too, which is borderline sacrilege to me, but this one somehow maintains the mood of the former. It’s played against a faint synth echo, that sounds like it could have been written in the 80s. The drum part and sax are identical, but the bass and piano have been replaced by the synth. It’s not as horrible as I would have wanted it to be, it’s still haunting, but the particular synth makes it too easy, whereas the full orchestration pulled something special off that felt like a constant descent. “Take Me With You” becomes a bare bones experiment, no drums, hardly any bass, just strings, sax, and frequently unaccompanied vocals.
There are some worthy additions to the Morphine canon in the earlier “unreleased” songs. “Come Over” has all the exuberance of anything on “Yes”, “It’s Not Like That Anymore” sounds like it could have hit fit somewhere between that and “Like Swimming”, with some eastern sounding sax play and whispered, ironic lyrics. “Patience” is an outlier guitar piece. “Bye Bye Johnny” has a folk vibe to to it, but a lot quicker tempo. “Moons of Jupiter” is a fun piece with heavy distortion, but seems to be lacking something that would have put it over the top, though the lyrics are entertaining. The rest are decent, but not really remarkable as Morphine songs go.
So, you’d be plunking down twenty-six bones (or sixteen, in MP3 form) for something that doesn’t quite do what it aims to and, of thirty-six tracks, about a third of which are “new” , and most of those are decent. But it misrepresents itself as being more than it is (the versions, as I said), and the live takes aren’t all that good. I don’t regret buying it on principle, but they’re trying to milk it and it’s probably worth about $14 in CD form, even as a double, and I could see about $10 being reasonable in mP3.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Damn good review.
I’ve been finding myself going back to the album “Yes” more now than I ever had before. I used to outright hate that album, but it’s grown on me in the past few months for some reason.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
"Yes" is solid work, I think.
I think “Good” and “Yes” might be one and two for me, as albums, as coherent ideas. There are tracks on “Cure For Pain” (“Thursday”, “Buena”, “Mary Won’t You Call My Name?”) and “The Night” (“The Night”, “So Many Ways”, “Souvenir”, “Take Me With You”) that I hold up as being among their most brilliant, but other parts don’t sit nearly as well with me. “Like Swimming” is the same with lower peaks and deeper valleys.
The stuff on this particular album has a vibe close to “Yes” and “Like Swimming”, it’s mostly upbeat but sometimes descends into more minimal soundscapes without fully getting into the worldly, deeper orchestrations that were never fully realized at the end.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
YES!
Steve Phillips was fired!
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 8:09 AM PDT reply actions
Here is a pic of the fatty he was banging.
http://www.beanstockd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bstockd_brookehundley.jpg
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions
you must date a lot of anorexic supermodels if you think she's "fat".
Stay classy.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Not sure why either is relevant or why it matters to Phillips' job performance
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Probably speaks to his performance in bed.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well she's the reason he got fired no?
by Graham MacAree on Oct 26, 2009 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes but then I don't think he should have gotten fired for having an affair
ESPN is a sports network, not a how-not-to-cheat-on-your-wife network. If his affair affected his on-air performance, or if the affair affected her job performance (which we’ll never know), then maybe firing was warranted, but otherwise it’s just overreaction.
And her physical appearance has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
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I don't care why he was fired, I just care that he's one of the worst sports "analysts" out there
and hopefully his career doing so is over.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions
It's because of the tabloidness of 'news'
Once this came out they more or less had to throw him to the wolves.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 26, 2009 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions
But there is a list of other ESPN employees who were not fired for similar "offenses".
It’s not like this was the first time he had done it, either.
Ever since Harold Reynolds it seems they have been trying to clean it up.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Thinking back ...
at the time I remember reading a quote from a woman who dealt with these sorts of legal issues; after opining that Reynolds was being unfairly shipped out, she then speculated that ESPN was (belatedly) getting some sensitivity on the issue, and that she wouldn’t be surprised to see harrassment issues being written into contracts as a firing offense…
I think it's just changing standards over what news is all about
by Graham MacAree on Oct 26, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Yep
The bar for what constitutes “news” has dropped rather alarmingly in the last 10 years or so.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
It's really interesting to me how much news is media-generated
I had left the tv on after the Sounders game on Saturday and it was talking about those sneaky companies taking advantage of swine flu fears, which is amazing in its level of meta-newsness.
by Graham MacAree on Oct 26, 2009 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
They're a "victim" of their own everpresentness
24-hour news channels sounded great in theory, 15 years ago – why should I wait for the 5pm news to see what happened today? Why should I wait for tomorrow’s paper to see what happened last night? – but what they decided not to care about was the race to the bottom that would create.
If you go from having to create 30 min of news content a day to having to create 24 hours’ worth, of course there’s going to be meta-ness all over it – they gotta fill up those air hours somehow. What I detest is the mass acceptance of stories like that as “news”. Or the way that “BREAKING NEWS” now means not so much news as “hey this trivial thing is what we’re going to be talking about for the next 20 mins”.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Well I struck a cord.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I find disparaging people's physical appearance distateful
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Well then
New title – “Here is the 22 year old he was banging.”
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I love ham too.
Glazed and roasted, with a little pineapple…. mmmmm
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
;P
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
What is that, an infinity Grill?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Oct 26, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That cat is adorable.
My cat would freak out if that happened to him.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Wind sucks
I was assaulted by airborne leaves all the way in to work this morning. those fuckers hurt when they hit your face at full speed.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Either spend the money to get a good one or don't get one at all.
There is no middle ground.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Haters gonna hate.
angels fan in seattle
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2009 11:48 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
They infuriate me
Of course I don’t own one
by Graham MacAree on Oct 26, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Was that your first comment?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't remember mlb.com sending out a "Congratlations Phillies" email.
Yet I get “Celebrate the Yanks 40th AL Pennant”. I want to reply to it and tell it to fuck off.
But it's a milestone!!!!
YANKEES NEWS IS VERY IMPORTANT
I’m just glad they stopped doing postseason updates on other team’s RSS (not RRS) feeds. No, I didn’t need to see that the RS won on my Ms AND general MLB feeds, thanks.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
New beer!
Well, new to me, anyway. Went here Saturday night, and spent a lot of the night drinking this. Can’t say that I’ve ever had a Bayern beer before, it was really quite good and now I want to try more of them. Anybody else had any Bayern beers before?
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No, though I see them in the store often. I'll have to pick up a few.
I’d like to compare their schwarzbier to the Port Brewing offerings, or to Session Dark.
And I’m always looking for a good oktoberfest.
I need to seek some out now
the dark hef was really quite good, but I freely admit my knowledge of dunkelweizens is pretty limited. But now I need to explore more.
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Baker blogging
starts out talking Tui in PR (“He’ll be playing third base primarily, but had a recent conversation with the team’s general manager and hopes to see stints at other positions.”) and then Geoff throws Orlando Hudson’s name out there as well
But oh dear lord I could never live in Montana
From the Bayern site:
According to Montana state laws, we can serve 48 ounces of beer per person between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.
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If anyone likes to play Xbox, play CoD 4 @ 8:15 tonight
gamertag: seattlebruin
We (fuzz, kirkharbaugh and myself) are getting a street legal X-Box with Live in the next few weeks and will participate nightly
So it will be a rotating 3 headed monster?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
YES YES YES
don’t forget to pick up MW2 on the 10th
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2009 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
bwahahahaha
I will bet anybody any amount of money they want to bet that the pilots who overshot MSP last week were porning it up on the flight deck:
The pilots of the commercial jetliner that last week overshot its destination by about 150 miles have said they were using their laptops and lost track of time and location, federal safety officials said Monday…They each had a 19-hour layover in San Diego; neither said he had slept or argued during the flight, but both said “there was a distraction” in the cockpit, according to the report…The pilots said there was “a concentrated period of discussion where they did not monitor the airplane or calls” from air traffic control, though both said they heard conversation on the radio, the report said.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
They don't need to, autopilot does all the work
frees up time for porn.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I hope they had dvds or magazines. Because if they can use the internet in the air, then goddammit, I want to also.
Uh huh...
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Several airlines are already offering it actually
Delta has it, Alaska’s testing it, and I’m pretty sure there’s at least one or two more that are either offering it or close to it.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I've yet to be on a flight that has it
But I’m really hoping Alaska has it on my Detroit flight.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Alaska does not fly to Detroit.
Perhaps the flight is on another carrier, and it is just booked through Alaska?
angels fan in seattle
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2009 2:49 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Well this just makes this trip even worse.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
United and American both have it
but it’s $10/flight
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably worth it for longer flights, assuming you have a way to keep your computer charged
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Only a matter of time before a whole new type of complaints start cropping up.
This ought to worth it just for the laughs
Delta's got commercials in flight
that basically say “we don’t block anything, but if you’d be embarrassed to show it to your mother don’t view it from your seat”.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I was impressed with the ads
I figured they’d opt for the don’t-ask-don’t-tell approach but they actually are trying to stop problems before they start.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
That's the only smart way to do it.
People could have been watching porn DVDs on their laptops this whole time, but haven’t been (I hope).
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by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2009 2:51 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Virgin America has it on all of their planes
though they only have a fleet of about 20 or so.
Delta has it on a large portion of their fleet as well. However, like Virgin, they are using cheaper tech that installs faster but won’t work outside of range of land
Southwest is using the same (superior) tech as Alaska, though they have it on way more of their planes.
Alaska still only has it on one 737-700, figuring out issues with the parts supplier’s financial position and FAA approval for an an alternate installation method that would require the planes to be out of service for less time.
angels fan in seattle
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2009 2:48 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Hey, I've been playing around with my Google Reader and I was wondering:
What are your favorite Seattle or Pacific Northwest-related blogs? Any subject is great (although obviously politics ones should only, at the very most, be linked to and not discussed).
I find I am checking the neighborhood blogs more and more
to find out important things like “what happened to the Winchells?” and “what the hell was that noise?”
Mariners Revolution
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone have any issues with Neighbors being idiots and affecting your property with their shenanigans?
NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!
I have idiot neighbors but fortunately they don't do anything to/on my property so I let them be.
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Its not my neighbor but my brothers neighbor dug a french drain ditch in their yard
But did it wrong and its flooding my brothers property. This morning my brother saw him out there covering the drain with a tarp to prevent water from going into the drain.
Failblog worthy?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
It woulda worked had it not been called a French Drain, amirite?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
It started to work halfheartedly and then just gave up and let the German drain do whatever it wanted
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by pdb on Oct 26, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
He did in fact give a half assed effort.
Not to mention the verbal abuse he has given my brother everytime my brother has gone over to talk to him about it. Including putting up a no trespassing sign. The house is on a 40ft wide lot with a shared driveway!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I would have him talk to the code enforcement guy.
Lots of time they can tell you what the process is for something like that, or even if it’s something you can do anything about. It’s possible that he needed a permit to put in buried drains (I know you do in my town) and he violated that.
Suing over that stuff is douchey, but it sounds like it’s gotten past the douche point by now.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
The people two doors down want to remover a cedar tree that is on their property, but grows right to the property line.
The guy next door doesn’t want them to remove it, so he parked a van right next to it and refuses to move it. Tree removal people won’t take the job. According to the story, the guy hasn’t moved the van in two years.
There was this kind of naive chick in college who didn't know what "cum" meant, so for four years, she would use it as chatspeak for "come"
I hope she eventually figured out why we all thought “are you cuming right now?” was so funny
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
What exactly is that a typo for?
What could that person possibly have been trying to write, except that word?
I was trying to figure that out myself.
Comfy maybe?
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't have an Oxford Annual Subscription...
>:(
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn't know I did!
“Latin preposition, meaning ‘with, together with’, used in English in local names of combined parishes or benefices, as Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Stow-cum-Quy, where it originated in Latin documents. Also in several much-used Latin phrases, as cum grano salis (or familiarly cum grano), lit. ‘with a grain of salt,’ i.e. with some caution or reserve; cum privilegio (ad imprimendum solum) with privilege (of sole printing); and in expressions, technical or humorous, imitating these, e.g. cum dividend (cum div.) relating to the sale or transfer of stock or shares together with the dividend about to be paid on them. Freq. used as a combining word to indicate a dual nature or function.”
Speaking of Craigslist, does anybody have experience with getting roommates off of there?
Tips for me on how not to die?
Meet in a public place?
I should send you my friend Justin.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
But only if you agree to make sure he showers.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Public place.
That isn’t a pumpkin patch.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I read this as 'getting roommates off on there'
And I thought you were trying really hard to get someone laid
by Graham MacAree on Oct 26, 2009 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I love her.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
My only regret was that she didn't kill him with it
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
The woman looks like Jay Mohr.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 26, 2009 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions
You obviously don't watch Mad Men
Christina Hendricks is way sexier than Jay Mohr.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Huh.
I love Christina Hendricks, but it doesn’t look like her in that short clip.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 27, 2009 7:46 AM PDT up reply actions
(I forgot about the EPL league and will now go see just how awful I'm doing)
No, it was just a general comment on your person.
Sadly I can't compare this to anything else since it's the first soccer game I've ever purchased
but I’m having a blast with it.
It looks almost identical to FIFA 09, but trust me when I say that the controls are far superior.
EA introduced 360-Degree Dribbling™, which sounds ridiculous but is awesome. In older games you could only move your player in the standard eight directions, which made everything a bit stilted. This feels a lot better.
If you have 360-Degree Dribbling, I think you have a growing problem.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 27, 2009 7:46 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I had that game!
Jumping over the goalkeeper was the best
by Graham MacAree on Oct 27, 2009 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
woo hooo
(blur’s song 2 for the opening sequence bit)
woo hooo
And yeah, jumping over the keeper was fun. Any idea what the hell that US league was? A portion of the A league, or just some random cities/players the developers made up? I wanted to be the (old) Sounders, but the game wouldn’t allow it :(
You could rename the teams and fix their colors
I started naming them “Sounders FC” and made them navy/teal with stripes.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 27, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I found FIFA 96 for Super Nintendo at a video game store a few years ago.
Best $4 I’ve ever spent. The mid-to-late-’90s FIFA and NBA Live games were incredibly fun, if nothing close to realistic.
I remember trying to play that game via emulation a few years ago and it nearly killed soccer games for me.
Live '95 with the expansion draft was a great game
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Oct 27, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Soooo....
Anyone else going to Sounders playoffs?
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Do you normally sit with the ECS?
I never asked you directly, but got the impression you were a member. If you’re going to Fuel pre-game, feel free to introduce yourself, if you want…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
First round tickets came with our season tickets, I believe. Or maybe it was tickets to the MLS Cup.
by .Taylor on Oct 27, 2009 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions
If you have season tickets, you can buy those seats in the playoffs, but they're not automatically included.
You actually need to buy them.
I'll be at Fuel before the game
And think I’ll wear my scarf to school today. :D There are a few Sounders jackets running around at the EDCC…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Fifa 10 people with a PS3
Add me and we can have a game! My username is the ultra nerdy ‘Ubiquitous1984’.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
Ares I-X launch hopefully today
Live stream from NASA here (opens in WMP)

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